Semester 2 Exam Vocabular Flashcards
Major causes of WW2
Nationalism, totalitarionism, militarism
Major Leaders of WW2
FDR, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hirohito
Allied Countries
US, Soviet Union, and UK
Axis Countries
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Major Events
Nationalism in Europe and Asia, Soviet revolution and communist government, failure to reconcile WW1, rise of Nazi Germany, Fascism in Italy, Spanish Civil War
Adolf Hitler
Elected democratically, good speaker, pledged revenge for WW1, united Germany and began the holocaust.
Maginot Line
A line of fortification constructed by France between France and Germany
Battle of Britain
The Air battle between Germany and Britain over English skies.
Luftwaffe
Aerial warfare branch of Nazi Germany
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor naval port bombed by Japanese in hopes to prevent America from entering WW2
Lend-Lease Act
A US program that supplied the USSR, Free France, and China with weapons during WW2 without directly engaging in the war.
Sonar and Radar
Sonar detects sound waves. Radar detects radio waves. Sonar used in submarines. Radar used in planes
Rationing
Restriction of peoples right to buy unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods during WW2.
FDR
Proposed government “New Deal” policies to get out of the depression. Entered the US into WW@ after Pearl Harbor.
Erwin Rommel
The German commander (Desert Fox) of an elite ground force called Africa Core
D-Day
The Allies (3 million total) confused German soldiers by purposely giving them faulty locations, and parachuted down behind German lines on June 6, 1944,
Hitler and FDR deaths
FDR died on April 12, 1945 of a stroke, and Hitler and his new wife committed suicide on April 30th.
Battle of Midway
Naval battle of WW2. American planes won a decisive victory over the Japanese navy.
Island Hopping
The strategy used by the US during WW2 in the pacific. Troops would hop from island to island, defeating the Japanese troops on each, until they neared Japan.
Kamikaze Pilots
Deliberate, Japanese suicide planes that crashed into military targets
Atomic Bombs
Nuclear chain reactions that caused massive explosions. Used twice by the US in Japan. Little boy in Hiroshima. Fat Man in Nagasaki.
Douglas MacArthur
A brilliant American general who led troops during “Island Hopping”. Fired by Truman in 1951.
Holocaaust
The systematic genocide of the Jewish during Hitler’s reign in Nazi Germany.
Kirstallnacht
Night of the broken glass. Nazi troops stormed Jewish businesses and stores, destroying everything in sight.